
TUHH is offering free use of Citavi for all members. Citavi is a powerful windows based, stand-alone reference tool. It is easy to use, focusses on knowledge organization, an can be used by students as well as by researcher.
Included features:
- Capture quotes, thoughts, comments. Organize knowledge
- Automatically capture books by ISBN, capture e-books and articles by DOI
- Search resources worldwide in more than 4.500 data bases
- Manage references
- Analyze and highlight texts
- Save ideas and structure your work
- transfer information from the Internet into your Citavi projects with the help of the add-on program Citavi Picker
- Plan tasks โ on your own or in a team
- Write the perfect paper, report, article, or book
For Questions and Training
Questions? We will be happy to advise you on reference management
Email: literaturverwaltung@tuhh.de.

Detlev Bieler
Telephone: +49 40 42878 3288

Florian Hagen
Telephone: +49 40 42878 3003

Alexander Unteutsch
Telephone: +49 40 42878 2855
You are also welcome to use our open online consultation hours via Zoom (identification code: 503035; meeting ID: 832 9724 8626) for questions regarding literature management (Fridays from 09:00 to 09:30).
Download and Installation
Citavi license
The TUHH is financing the continued use of Citavi and is extending the license for a further three years from April 2025.
From April 2025, TUHH members will be able to use both Citavi 6 and Citavi 7 as part of the campus license. Citavi Web will also be available. Since Citavi 7 has not yet been extensively tested over a longer period of time, we recommend continuing to use Citavi 6, especially for projects that have already begun.
Note on cloud usage of Citavi
If you use Citavi in the cloud, remember to regularly save your projects to a local computer for security.
Citavi installation
Download and install Citavi
- Register for a Citavi account to get your licence key.
- Upgrade your free version to a licensed Citavi team version
- Import settings for TUHH
- Save CITAVI-Einstellungsdatei-TUHH.csd on your computer
- Citavi -> Tools -> Import or Export Settings.
- Choose Import
- Browse to the location of your download and then proceed with Next.
- Choose the settings you want to import
- Finish
Notes about the account:
- In case of problems with your TUHH-account, please contact the User Service Center of the TUHH Data Centre
- If you already have an Citavi-Account, you can link the access to TU Hamburg in your profile.